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Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (in 3 vols.)

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (in 3 vols.) by [Dickens, Charles] Boz

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Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (in 3 vols.)
Author
[Dickens, Charles] Boz
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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Near Fine
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London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. Near Fine. First issue, with the "Boz" title-pages in each volume and the "Fireside" plate facing p. 313 in volume three (the "Church" plate also bound in facing p. 315). Complete, with the half-titles in volumes one and two, and the correct ads at the end of volume one and the beginning of volume three. A lovely, Near Fine set, unusually clean and fresh throughout, with just a bit of foxing and toning to some of the plates. Elegantly bound in full green morocco. Spines with raised bands and gilt stamping. Spines sunned, with patches of sunning to lower board of voume three. Top edge gilt and gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers with nineteenth-century bookplate to upper pastedowns and twentieth-century bookplate to upper free endpapers. Small ink gift inscription, dated 1913, to volume one, and a small sticker, from a bookseller or previous owner, to preliminary blank of volume two. An excellent copy of one of Dickens' most famous works. Oliver Twist, Dickens' second novel, is a dark and biting work, but one that is balanced with Oliver's indefatigable innocence and charm. Often cited as the first Victorian novel to feature a child protagonist, it was developed as a social commentary and a call for improving the conditions of London's destitute and orphan children. In recent scholarship, critics have noted that Dickens also sought to find balance, as many of his contemporaries did, between Darwin's theories about human nature and those from the Christian tradition; as the characters make their way through a seemingly uncaring world, they are ultimately drawn back to reward or retribution based on their individual level of goodness. The story was immensely successful, both as a novel filled with memorable characters and also as a work prompting much-needed social reform. Today it remains high within the pantheon of Victorian literature and is a work that has been successfully adapted to both the stage and screen. For this novel, Dickens's first in the standard three-volume form, Bentley divided the printing task between two firms: volume one was printed by Samuel Bentley; volume two format by Whiting; and volume three in part by both Whiting and Bentley. The triple-decker publication date was November 9, 1839; within a week, at Dickens's insistence, the title-pages were changed to include his name, and the "Fireside" plate was replaced with the "Church" version. The present set is from the first issue, with the original "Boz" titles and the "Fireside" plate. Smith I, 4. Near Fine.
The Young Cripple and His Job [and] City Planning for Girls. Social Service Monographs No. 4 [and] No. 5

The Young Cripple and His Job [and] City Planning for Girls. Social Service Monographs No. 4 [and] No. 5 by [Disability] [Breckinridge, Sophonisba P., editor] Hathway, Marion; Addition, Henrietta Silvis

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The Young Cripple and His Job [and] City Planning for Girls. Social Service Monographs No. 4 [and] No. 5
Author
[Disability] [Breckinridge, Sophonisba P., editor] Hathway, Marion; Addition, Henrietta Silvis
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928. First edition. Very Good. Both issues in publisher's stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 130; vii, [3], 150 pp. One issue with an editor's preface by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (1866 - 1948). The Young Cripple with chip to spine and a bit of chipping to edges; small adhesive stain to front cover; and library ink stamps of the University of Chicago to inside of front wrapper, first leaf, and last leaf. Dustsoiling and a pencil mark to wrappers of City Planning, with small chip to two corners and front wrapper starting. Still a Very Good set. About a dozen issues of the Social Service Monographs series were published by the University of Chicago between 1927 and 1930, beginning with The Bail System in Chicago. The series was edited by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, an activist, writer, and social scientist who was involved with Jane Addams' Hull House project. In her preface to The Young Cripple, Breckinridge credits Jane A. Neil, president of the Spalding School for Crippled Children, as well as several other women in healthcare, social work, and activism, for their support of the Social Service Monograph series. Marion Hathway (1895 - 1955) was a social worker, educator, and leftist organizer who earned her master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1927. The Young Cripple and His Job was her thesis, published here as part of the Social Service Monographs Series (VCU Libraries). Hathway studied the cases of fifty disabled young men in Chicago-she surveyed them on their education, mental health, work skills, ethnicity (many were from immigrant backgrounds), and the details and causes of their disabilities-to determine how to improve their educational and employment resources. The year after completing her master's degree, Hathway began working on her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago under Breckinridge and Dean Edith Abbott (1876 - 1957); she published her thesis as The Migratory Worker and Family Life in 1934. Hathway found roles as a social worker and professor in Illinois, Washington, Hawai'i, and Puerto Rico, though she ultimately spent much of her life in Pennsylvania, where she taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at Bryn Mawr. While teaching at the university in 1951, she received criticism in the press for her involvement in labor organizing, with a Pennsylvania Superior Court judge accusing her of "teaching young folks that there is something wrong with this country." The judge demanded that the state of Pennsylvania cut off all aid to the University of Pittsburgh if Hathway was not fired; ultimately, no legal action was taken, and Hathway remained in her role. Hathway's lifelong commitment to social work motivated her participation in numerous professional organizations in the field, and she served on the boards of both the American Association of Social Workers and the American Association of Schools of Social Work. Henrietta Silvis Additon (1887 - 1973) was a social worker educated at the University of Pennsylvania whose advocacy centered around women and girls in the prison system. City Planning For Girls is a study of marginalized young women in urban areas that seeks to answer the question of "why girls go wrong": in essence, how economic and social forces result in young women entering the sex trade, being arrested, or experiencing homelessness. Additon analyzed the cases of twenty young women (each reported here with details of their health, socioeconomic class, employment experience, sexual backgrounds, etc.) to develop remedies for their disenfranchisement. At the time this monograph was published, Additon was serving as Executive Secretary of the Big Sister Association of Philadelphia and was a Lecturer in Social Sciences at Bryn Mawr College. In the early 1930s, however, she served as the Deputy Police Commissioner who lead the NYPD Crime Prevention Bureau (later the Juvenile Aid Bureau). Additon, who was skeptical of the effectiveness of prisons, was a reformer: she sought to make as few arrests as possible and to instead reduce crime by increasing public recreational spaces, providing resources to families, and barring young people from "breeding spots of delinquency" like theaters and dance halls (Perry). City Planning for Girls reflects Additon's interest in diverting young women from the justice system and seeking non-carceral solutions to what she identified as economic and social (rather than individual) problems. American National Biography; VCU Libraries Social Welfare History Project; Perry, Elizabeth I. After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York (2019). Very Good.
The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative

The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative by [Captivity Narratives] Cornelius, Elias

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The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative
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[Captivity Narratives] Cornelius, Elias
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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Very Good
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Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1822. First edition. Very Good. Publisher's red roan over blue paper-covered boards. Sixteenmo. 108 pp. Complete with frontispiece and one other plate. Gilt-titled spine. Paper over boards chipped and dustsoiled. Contemporary ink ownership signature (Mary Ann D Parker) to front verso of frontispiece. Toning to endpapers and some foxing throughout. Still a Very Good copy of this unusual captive narrative. This captivity narrative, written for a young audience, differs from others in the genre by the racial dynamics of the captive and captors: Lydia Carter (as she was later renamed after her white benefactor), a young Osage girl, was captured by Cherokee warriors after they launched an attack on her community. The white missionary Elias Cornelius, the narrator and purported author of the story, encounters the warriors while traveling and agrees to purchase Lydia. He takes her to the nearby Brainard Mission, where she is educated by the missionaries until her untimely death of an illness. While most contemporary captive narratives follow the violent (and often sexualized) kidnapping and imprisonment of white women and men by Native tribes, this story's captive is herself an Osage; the story, then, is an account of white missionary intervention in inter-tribal conflict rather than a more typical account of violence between white settlers and Native tribes. Lydia is also, in a sense, "captured" twice: once by the Cherokee warriors who attacked her Osage community and once by her ostensible rescuer. Lydia's Osage background adds a complexity to the more standard white woman/Native man dynamic portrayed in many contemporary captivity narratives and sets the stage for a white missionary fantasy of intervening in tribal conflict to save a helpless Native orphan. Despite its somewhat divergent premise, however, the goal of the work is more or less the same as any other entry in the genre-to bolster the American colonial project and, specifically, solicit donations for the missionary cause. The work ends with an exhortation to the youth of America: "Let children and youth consider, that they are required to do something to send the Gospel to the Heathen. How many of them might give to this object a penny a week...by abstaining from some unnecessary indulgence. Were all the children in our country to do this, they would raise several hundred thousand dollars every year; and their donations alone, would be sufficient to send instruction to every Indian child in America." Howes C-776; Eberstadt 122: 78, "A popular southern captivity. The Little Osage Captive - Lydia Carter - was rescued by the missionaries from the Cherokee. One of the copper-plates depicts the Brainard Mission." Note that supposed 1821 edition recorded by Ayer is a mistake, according to Howes: "In some copies of the [1824] York edition the final '4' in the date had become so broken as to resemble a '1,' hence the myth of an 1821 printing." Very Good.
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Sermon Preached Before... House of Representatives of the State of the Massachusetts-Bay... May 28, 1777 by AMERICAN REVOLUTION WEBSTER Samuel

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Sermon Preached Before... House of Representatives of the State of the Massachusetts-Bay... May 28, 1777
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION WEBSTER Samuel
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1777. First Edition. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) WEBSTER, Samuel, A.M. A Sermon Preached before the Honorable Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of the State of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New England. At Boston, May 28, 1777. Being the Anniversary for the Election of the Honorable Council. Boston: Edes & Gill, 1777. Octavo, modern full calf gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands, uncut; pp. (1-5), 6-44. $4800.First edition of Webster's electrifying 1777 Sermon delivered barely ten months after America's Declaration of Independence, invoking God's wrath to put the British ""to flight speedily… make them quake with fear… and so return to their own lands… let them have neither credit nor courage, to come out any more against us.""When Samuel Webster delivered this crucial 1777 election sermon before the Massachusetts-Bay Council and House of Representatives, ""independence had been proclaimed, not secured. The bloodletting had just begun."" That same year Thomas Paine, in an public letter to Admiral Howe, warned him: ""In all the wars which you have formerly been concerned in, you had only armies to contend with. In this case, you have both an army and a country to combat"" (Atkinson, British Are Coming, 561-64). Mindful of his audience and the peril of the moment, Webster, a minister in Salisbury, Massachusetts, aimed ""biting sarcasm"" at the British, and made ""solemn appeals to the representatives of the people to be true to their trust"" (Headley, Chaplains and Clergy, 3).""From colonial times it was the custom of certain of the New England states to open each year's session of the legislature with an annual election sermon"" (Vail, Checklist). Drawing extensively on biblical sources, these sermons focus on the ""nature, purpose and character of government"" and the ""character of a good ruler"" (Cline, New England Election Sermons, 5-10). Here Webster, a Harvard graduate with a 1749 AM, firmly proclaims: ""conquests made by force upon an inoffensive people… gives no right… the business of all in power is to defend the lives, liberties and property of the people… and where there is any dispute, let nothing be done, till it is settled by the people, who are the fountain of power.""Webster directs his fiery eloquence at ""our furious brethren the Britons… who have begun the most desperate attacks on us."" He calls on God to ""put them to flight speedily… as the fire consumes the wood, and sometimes lays waste whole forests on the mountains, so let them be laid waste and consumed, if they obstinately persist in their bloody designs against us."" In his concluding words, Webster calls for ""a dreadful tempest to affright them… make them quake with fear; and pursue them with thine arrows, till they are either destroyed, or brought to see that God is with us of a truth and fighteth for us, and so return to their own lands, covered with shame and confusion… let them have neither credit nor courage, to come out any more against us"" (emphasis in original). First edition. With half title. Evans 15703. ESTC W3240. Vail, 21. Sabin 10423. Small numerical notation above half title.Text fresh with mere trace of scattered foxing.
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William Burn's Silver Vulcan Medal from the the Society of Arts for his invention of the Rolling Press for Bookbinders by Society of Arts

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William Burn's Silver Vulcan Medal from the the Society of Arts for his invention of the Rolling Press for Bookbinders
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Society of Arts
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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London, 1827.
Hollywood: A Novel
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Hollywood: A Novel by Bukowski, Charles

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Hollywood: A Novel
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Bukowski, Charles
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780876857656
Condition
Fine
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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 176 special copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, numbered and signed by author, with an original color print ALSO signed by author. The print features a woman, smoking a cigarette and walking two dogs, watched by a crowd of onlookers from the background, in yellow, red, dull pink, and black on white paper. Print is bound following copyright page. Book is bound in quarter illustrated cloth, with color-illustrated white paper-wrapped boards, and paper spline label stamped in black and brick-red. With original clear acetate dust jacket. 6 x 9 inches.
Scenes from the Land of the Midnight Sun Yukon and Alaska

Scenes from the Land of the Midnight Sun Yukon and Alaska

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Scenes from the Land of the Midnight Sun Yukon and Alaska
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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Near fine condition with only minor edgewear.
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Dawson, Yukon Territory, Alaska: Landahl's, 1908. Paperback. Near fine condition with only minor edgewear.. Bound in publisher's original 9 inch wide by 7 inches high grey wrapper printed on the front cover in silver and gold with a cover illustration of a miner standing in water panning for riches. String ties. Eight lines of poetry by Robert Service on the cover. Glassine blank, glassine with 40 lines from "The Law of the Yukon" by Robert Service, title page with photo on back, sixteen photographs on eight leaves, glassine with twenty-eight lines of poetry from "Law of the Yukon," twelve pages of photographs on six leaves, glassine with "Father George" by Arnold F. George printed on obverse, four pages of photographs on two leaves, glassine with twenty-four lines from "The Call of the Wild" by Robert Service on obverse, Six pages of photographs on three leaves, glassine with sixteen lines of poetry from "The Spell of the Yukon" by Robert Service on obverse, final leaf with photograph on obverse, final glassine blank.
Printed emblematic fan, with captions in Spanish

Printed emblematic fan, with captions in Spanish by FAN — LOVE CHOICES

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Printed emblematic fan, with captions in Spanish
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FAN — LOVE CHOICES
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Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
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[France, 1810. Hand-colored and color-printed stipple-engraved folding paper fan, printed on recto of a single sheet, backed in plain paper, mounted on original wooden sticks, the guards with narrow fillets of decorative bone near rivet, the rivet pins with decorative glass inserts; the open fan leaf measuring approx. 169 x 450 mm., total fan height (including mount) 255 mm. The allegorical scene colored in watercolor and gouache; stenciled gold-printed acanthus border at top, a gold border at top of otherwise blank verso. (Slight wear along a few folds.) *** A colorful woman’s fan, probably produced in France for the Spanish market, on the theme of choosing a lover or partner. The engraving shows, at the center of a clearing in a wood, a couple in classical dress, the male figure, representing wisdom, in a helmet, armor and cloak, the woman with a yellow halo  (innocence) bearing the caption, “La inocencia guiada de la sabiduria para elergir un corazon” (Innocence guided by wisdom to choose a heart). Flanking the couple are ten hearts (some flaming), five on each side, each containing an emblematic figure with a one-word caption designating the pictured character trait. Those on the left are undesirable qualities (e.g., a butterfly, labeled Inconstancia), and those on the right, to which Wisdom is pointing, are positive (e.g., a dog on a leash, labeled Fidelidad). Fans were often accessories in scenes of courting or flirtation, in literature, the theater, and real life. This was reflected in popular themes of fan designs themselves. An English fan from the same period, differently presented but bearing a similar message, was featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2026 “Fanmania” exhibit (Met object no. 38.91.23). It shows “an array of potential suitors cast as contrasting types. In addition to offering amusement, the fan might have provided a degree of moralizing instruction to young women on behaviors to either avoid or embrace in a prospective beau” (exhibit label). 
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The Kaiser's Children by ASHBERY, John & Eric STOTIK

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The Kaiser's Children
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ASHBERY, John & Eric STOTIK
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Fine copy
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Portland: Charles Seluzicki, 1997. First edition of this eccentric collaboration in which Stotik's illustrations are paired with excerpts from Ashbery's poem, "Dreams of Adulthood". Limited to only 50 sets numbered and signed by Ashbery and Stotik. Fine copy. Small 8vo, 12 illustrations mounted on loose letterpress printed cards designed by Marc Blocker with faux gilt frames, in hand-colored folder with gold tassel. Fine copy.
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son...

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son... by (Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of)

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Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son...
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(Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of)
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Very good
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London: J. Dodsley, 1774. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. 8vo. Four volumes. Contemporary binding of full polished calf; spines in 6 compartments with simple gilt rules; red morocco lettering pieces, gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the Earl of Chesterfield in volume one. Hinges cracked but firm; light edgewear; closed marginal tear to the portrait into the lettering at the bottom, without loss; else a very good set. Gulick 5. ESTC T80892.
Barlaam and Josephat

Barlaam and Josephat by (Allen Press) Caxton, William, transl

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Barlaam and Josephat
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(Allen Press) Caxton, William, transl
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Fine
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(Greenbrae): The Allen Press, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 8vo. (53)pp. Gray cloth printed on the spine and upper board with the title. Title in two colors. Two full page illustrations ad several vignettes in the text; hand-colored initials. Finely printed letterpress on hand-made Richard de Bas paper. One of 140 copies. A fine copy in its clear acetate wrapper. An edition of the Christian legend of the Buudha, translated and first published by William Caxton in 1484. With the prospectus laid-in. Allen Press, #52. .
[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE

[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE

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[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
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Very Good binding
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1892. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A collection of 19 Virginia pamphlets, published from the 1840’s to the early 1890s. Being three female college catalogues, nine ‘Proceedings’ of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Virginia, three issues of the ‘Educational Journal of Virginia,’ a Senate document on ‘Improvements to the State of Virginia’ (1848), an early Reconstruction-era ‘Constitution of Virginia’ (1867), a document on Senate elections and ‘the Virginia debt question’ (1881), and an ‘Annual Message’ of the Gov. of Virginia (1872). Most of the pamphlets are bound with their paper wrappers; there is significant paper damage to the top edge of the first half of “Outline of the Improvements in the State of Virginia” (1848); most pamphlets are in Very Good condition. Bound in library style, light brown buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. ~~“Speech of Hon. J. W. Johnston, of Virginia, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Friday, March 25, 1881, on the Resolution to Elect Officers of the Senate and on the Virginia Debt Question.” Washington, 1881. 28 pp.~~“Announcement of the Tazewell Female Seminary, Tazewell C. H., Va. Session 1886-87.” Clinch Valley News, Job Print. 1886. 12 pp. Paper wrappers.~~“Sixth Annual Catalogue of Tazewell Female Seminary, (A Home School for Girls,) Session of 1891-’92, with Announcements for 1892-’93. Chartered in 1888.” Tazewell Republican Print. Tazewell C. H., Va., 1892. 32 pp. Paper wrappers; frontispiece.~~“Annual Catalogue of the Montgomery Female College, Christiansburgh, Montgomery County, Virginia, for the Collegiate Year, 1887-88.” D. A. St. Clair Book & Job Printer. Wytheville, Virginia, [1888]. 32 pp. Paper wrappers.~~“I. O. G. T. Journal of Proceedings, at the Organization of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Held at Falls Church, Virginia, April 28th, 1869, and of the First Annual Session of the Same Held at Fairfax Court House, Va., April 28, 1870.” Printed at the Gazette Job Office. Alexandria, Va., 1870. 22 pp. Wrappers.~~“Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. I. O. of G. T., Held at Alexandria, November 19th and 20th, 1873.” Printed by Robert Bell. Alexandria, 1873. 22 pp. Self wrappers. ~~“Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia Independent Order of Good Templars, Held in the City of Richmond, November 17th, 18th, and 19th, 1875.” R. O. Polkinhorn, Printer. Washington, 1875. 36 pp. Wrappers.~~“Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Independent Order of Good Templars, Held in the City of Winchester, Nov. 15th, 16th, and 17th, 1876.” R. O. Polkinhorn, Printer. Washington, 1876. 32 pp. Wrappers.~~“Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Independent Order of Good Templars, Held in the City of Staunton, November 28th, 29th, 30th, 1877.” R. O. Polkinhorn, Printer. Washington, 1878. 40 pp. Front cover only.~~“Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Independent Order of Good Templars, Held in the City of Richmond, November 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 1878.” Monitor Job Printing Establishment. Franklin, Va., 1879. 24, 41-48, [ad leaf], 25-60, [ad leaf] pp. Loss to the bottom half of pp. 45/46, 49/50. Front cover only. ~~“Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Independent Order of Good Templars, Held in the City of Winchester, On November 25, 26, 27 and 28, 1879.” R. O. Polkinhorn, Printer. Washington, 1879. 50 pp. Wrappers. ~~“Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Independent Order of Good Templars, Held in the City of Norfolk, On November 23, 24, 25 and 26, 1880.” Ramey & Son, Printers. Alexandria, Va., 1880. 40 pp. Wrappers.~~“Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, at its Twenty-Second Annual Session, Held at Roanoke City, Virginia, December 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th, 1889.” Also: “Appendix. Annual Reports of Officers.” Ramey & Son, Printers. Alexandria, Va., 1889. 32, 1-62 pp. Wrappers.~~“The Educational Journal of Virginia. Vol. X. No. 3. March, 1879.” Clemmitt & Jones, Printers. Richmond, Va., [1879]. 97-144, [2] pp. Wrappers.~~“The Educational Journal of Virginia. Vol. X. No. 4. April, 1879.” Clemmitt & Jones, Printers. Richmond, Va., [1879]. 145-192, [2] pp. Wrappers.~~“The Educational Journal of Virginia. Vol. XII. No. 10. October, 1881.” Wm. Ellis Jones, Printer. Richmond, Va., [1881]. 293-324, [2] pp. Wrappers. ~~“[Senate Doc] Constitution of Virginia, Framed by the Convention which met in Richmond, Virginia, the Third Day of December, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Seven.” State Journal Printing House. Richmond, [1867]. 36 pp.~~“Outline of the Improvements in the State of Virginia. To Accompany the Map of the Same. Prepared in Pursuance of a Resolution of the General Assembly of March 15, 1848.” C. Sherman, Printer. Philadelphia, 1848. [[SIGNIFICANT LOSS TO THE TOP HALF OF TITLE AND PP. 1-34]] [2], 68 pp. ~~“Annual Message of Hon. Gilbert C. Walker, Governor of Virginia, December 4, 1872.” Clemmitt & Jones, Printers. Richmond, Va., [1872]. 20 pp. Metallic blue wrappers. Some spots of staining to front cover and preliminaries. Very Good binding.
EUGENICS CONGRESS 1923. Eugenics, Genetics and the Family, Vol I. ;Eugenics in Race and State, Vol II: Scientific Papers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics

EUGENICS CONGRESS 1923. Eugenics, Genetics and the Family, Vol I. ;Eugenics in Race and State, Vol II: Scientific Papers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics by Davenport, Charles B.

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EUGENICS CONGRESS 1923. Eugenics, Genetics and the Family, Vol I. ;Eugenics in Race and State, Vol II: Scientific Papers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics
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Davenport, Charles B.
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1923. First edition. SCARCE PROCEEDINGS OF SECOND INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS CONGRESS--ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL HONORARY PRESIDENT. Two hardcover volumes, 15x23 cm, blue cloth binding with gilt title to spine. Vol. I, frontispiece portrait of Alexander Graham Bell, "Honorary president of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, and pioneer investigator in the field of human heredity," i-x, 439 pp, 24 photgraphic plates, text figures; Vol. II, frontispiece portrait of Henry Fairfield Osborn, "President of the Second International Congress of Eugenics. Photograph taken in Stockholm, on President Osborn's sixty-fourth birthday, August 8, 1921, while visiting Scandinavia on behalf of the Second International Congress of Eugenics," i-ix, 472 pp, 20 photographic plates, text figures. Residue from library sticker removal bottom of spines. Library pockets and handstamps to endpapers. Hinges from Vol. I reinforced with cloth tape--textblock reinserted upside-down; hinges of Vol. II starting. Text and plates clean and unmarked. Good+ in custom archival mylar covers. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922) was the honorary president of the Second Congress. In his lecture Memoir upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race presented to the National Academy of Sciences in 1883 he noted that congenitally deaf parents were more likely to produce deaf children and tentatively suggested that couples where both parties were deaf should not marry. However, it was his hobby of livestock breeding which led to his appointment to biologist David Starr Jordan's Committee on Eugenics, under the auspices of the American Breeders Association. The committee unequivocally extended the principle to man. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN (1857 – 1935), president of the Second Congress, was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years. Cofounder of the American Eugenics Society in 1922, Osborn advocated that heredity is superior to influences from the environment. As an extension of this, he accepted that distinct races existed with fixed hereditary traits, and supported eugenics to preserve "good" racial stock. CHARLES B. DAVENPORT (1866-1944), Chairman of the Publication Committee of the Second Congress, was initially a professor of zoology at Harvard, where he became one of the most prominent American biologists of his time. He had a tremendous respect for the biometric approach to heredity pioneered by English eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. In 1904, Davenport became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He founded the Eugenics Record Office there in 1910. Davenport's research was guided by the racism and classism of his time. Davenport was particularly interested in race-mixing, which he saw both as a phenomenon that could shed light on the workings of human heredity and as a threat to society. He believed that the biological differences between the races justified a strict immigration policy, and that people of races deemed "undesirable" should not be allowed into the country. Cited by RC Engs in The Eugenics Movement (2005): "At the successful 1912 First International Eugenics Congress, a planning committee formed to plan the next congress for 1913. However, due to World War I, the Second International Congress did not take place until September 22-28, 1921. It was bring together geneticists and eugenicists from around the world to "discuss results of their research and their application to race improvement." Most noted eugenicists attended. The congress was divided into four sections: "Human and Comparative Heredity,' "Eugenics and the Family," "Human Racial Differences," and "Eugenics and the State." Proceedings and presentations were published in two volumes and printed in Baltimore by Williams and Wilkins Company (1923) with a total of 96 papers. The first volume (offered here), Eugenics, Genetics and the Family, included 439 pages plus photographs. Titles of papers included "Darwinian Evolution by Mutation," "Inheritance of Mental Disorders," "The Mayflower Pilgrims," and "The Oneida Community Experiment in Stirpiculture." The second volume, Eugenics in Race and State, contained 471 pages. Papers included "Notes on the Body-Form of Man," "Harmonic and Disharmonic Race Crossings," "The Present Status of Eugenical Sterilization in the United States, and "Eugenics in Relations to the Tuberculosis Problem."
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Briques et Tuiles by SEGALEN, Victor; ANDRE MASSON

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Briques et Tuiles
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SEGALEN, Victor; ANDRE MASSON
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Ursus Books (United States)
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1967. MASSON, André. Briques et Tuiles. By Victor Segalen. 68, [4] pp. With a signed etched frontispiece by Masson. Small folio, loose in publisher's wrappers. [Montpellier]: fata morgana, 1967. Masson contributed an aquatint of his own version of Chinesee calligraphy. One of 50 copies on Japon with a signed etching by Masson. Saphire and Cramer, ANDRE MASSON: The Illustrated Books.No. 75
The Prince of Thieves (Original screenplay for the 1948 film)

The Prince of Thieves (Original screenplay for the 1948 film) by Alexandre Dumas (novel); Howard Bretherton (director); Charles H. Schneer, Maurice Tombragel (screenwriters); Jon Hall, Patricia Morison, Adele Jergens (starring)

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The Prince of Thieves (Original screenplay for the 1948 film)
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Alexandre Dumas (novel); Howard Bretherton (director); Charles H. Schneer, Maurice Tombragel (screenwriters); Jon Hall, Patricia Morison, Adele Jergens (starring)
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Royal Books (United States)
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Manuscript annotations on first few leaves indicating the names of the actors playing the lead roles. Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1872 novel, this film follows the adventures of English hero Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Set in the UK. White titled wrappers, noted as Revised Final Draft on the front wrapper, production No. 887, dated April 23, 1947. Title page present, dated April 23, 1947, with credits for novelist Alexander Dumas [sic] and screenwriters Charles H. Schneer and Maurice Tombragel. 118 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with yellow and white revision pages throughout, dated April 25th, 1947. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.
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De la suggestion et des applications a la thérapeutique by BERNHEIM, Hippolyte

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De la suggestion et des applications a la thérapeutique
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BERNHEIM, Hippolyte
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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Paris: Octave Doin, 1886. FIRST EDITION. Wood engravings throughout. Original red and black printed wrappers preserved in a glassine sleeve (spine strip worn away). Partially unopened. First edition of this manual of suggestive therapy. The first section was originally published in 1884 but appears here with an entirely new part on therapeutic applications of hypnosis. The author, called the Father of Modern Psychotherapy, addresses the treatment of hysteria and mental illness through hypnotic suggestion. He includes warnings about the dangers and ethical shortcomings to be avoided in clinical hypnotism. Bernheim’s approach to treating psychological ailments through hypnosis proved effective, and his theories were adopted by clinicians all over the world. In fact, in 1888, Sigmund Freud undertook the translation of this book into German. Crabtree 1127; Norman 211.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years - A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Women, Including the Triumphs of Her Last Years, Account of Her Death and Funeral and Comments of the Press, in Three Volumes

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years - A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Women, Including the Triumphs of Her Last Years, Account of Her Death and Funeral and Comments of the Press, in Three Volumes by [Anthony, Susan B.]; Harper, Ida Husted

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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years - A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Women, Including the Triumphs of Her Last Years, Account of Her Death and Funeral and Comments of the Press, in Three Volumes
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[Anthony, Susan B.]; Harper, Ida Husted
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company / The Hollenbeck Press, 1898. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1899 reprint of first volume, 1898 first printing of second volume, 1908 first printing of third volume. Former library copies with usual marks, spines of volumes 1 and 2 toned, boards of each volume soiled, boards of volume 3 foxed, front hinges of two volumes weakening. Complete three volume set. xxiv, 513, [1]; xi, [2], 515-1070; xvii, [1], 1111-1633, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the important advocate for women's suffrage, with transcripts of speeches and correspondence. Illustrated with portraits, pictures of homes, etc. Included here is the third volume, often lacking because it was printed nearly ten years after the first two. Susan B. Anthony collaborated with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in efforts to abolish slavery and secure equal rights for women. Anthony's arrest in 1872 for violation of voting laws was an important event in the push for suffrage, though it would still take almost fifty more years before the passage of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. She is considered a very important figure in the history of Rochester, New York, where she spent much of her life. She is buried there at Mount Hope Cemetery, and each year advocates for equal rights visit her grave to honor her advocacy and activism.
Tom Swift and His Jetmarine (The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, Book 2)

Tom Swift and His Jetmarine (The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, Book 2) by Appleton, Victor

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Tom Swift and His Jetmarine (The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, Book 2)
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Appleton, Victor
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780448091020
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 7x4x0. Kaye, Graham. Reprint (back cover lists through Triphibian Atomicar). Edges lightly soiled, boards lightly rubbed, front hinge just beginning to weaken, ink name and address on front endpaper. 1954 Hard Cover. 208 pp. Pictorial boards, illustrations and endpapers by Graham Kaye. "Tom Swift, Jr., and his associates try to unravel the relationship between the dog coins and the mysterious blackouts near Spaniel Island."  "Tom Swift Jr. is the protagonist of a series of juvenile adventure novels aimed at male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ('Senior') novels. The series was entitled The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures. Unlike the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys titles that were also products of the prolific Stratemeyer Syndicate, the original Tom Swift stories were not rewritten in the 1950s to modernize them. It was decided that the protagonist of the new series would be the son of the earlier Tom Swift and his wife, Mary Nestor Swift; the original hero continued as a series regular, as did his pal Ned Newton. For the Tom Swift Jr. series the books were outlined mostly by Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap. Most of the books were written by James Duncan Lawrence, who had an interest in science and technology and was faithful to the canon of the previous Tom Swift series. Title #7, Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter, has several references to the first series including a visit with Mrs. Baggert, who was Tom Sr.'s housekeeper, and other volumes feature a rocket named after the old family retainer Eradicate "Rad" Sampson, a radiation-detector (the Damonscope) named after Tom Sr.'s friend Mr. Damon, and a planetoid named in honor of Tom Swift Sr.'s father Barton. As in the original series, the basic locale is the quaint town of Shopton, New York, on Lake Carlopa. James Lawrence once said that Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar was one of his favorite Tom Swift Jr. stories. Typical story elements include Tom's loyal and quip-prone friend Bud Barclay, his comic-relief cook 'Chow' Winkler, spies (typically from Soviet stand-ins Brungaria or Kranjovia), use of a wonder-material called Tomasite that did anything the story needed, the amazingly versatile force-ray repelatron, and atomic-powered everything, including the aforesaid atomicar. The first invention of the series (and the one making the most frequent appearances in subsequent stories), the Flying Lab (named Sky Queen), was a giant VTOL research airplane the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Mention must be made of the role of the book covers in vivifying memories of the books. Mostly by ex-Saturday Evening Post illustrator (J.) Graham Kaye, the covers burst with color and excitement and the sheer romance of invention. Covers in the later half of the series, mostly by Charles Brey, were less detailed and reflected Brey's more modernistic style. The Tom Swift Jr. stories had stronger science-fiction elements than the earlier series, particularly in the later volumes. One subplot which, beginning on the first page of the first volume, ran the length of the series, is Tom's communication, via mathematical 'space symbols,' with beings from 'Planet X.' This mystery is never completely resolved despite the beings sending an artificial 'energy brain' to occupy a robot body built by Tom in book #17. A total of 33 volumes were eventually published. The stories offered science that was more intriguing than accurate. Yet, the characters and titles are well-remembered and lovingly regarded, and a number of scientists, researchers, and engineers (including Apple Computer's Steve Wozniak) profess to having been set on their courses by Tom Swift Jr. The 'Tom Swifties' style of dialogue writing played no role in the actual series.
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[Manuscript Estate Inventory from Antebellum Missouri, Including Four Named Slaves] by [Slavery]: [Missouri]

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[Manuscript Estate Inventory from Antebellum Missouri, Including Four Named Slaves]
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[Slavery]: [Missouri]
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
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St. Genevieve County, MO: January 18, 1844. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Original folds, minor wear. Very good condition. A sobering manuscript inventory from the estate of Richard Maddin following his death in Missouri in 1843 detailing his "slaves and other personal" property. The inventory begins by listing the enslaved persons by name, along with an assignation of value for each of them, as such: "1 Negro man named Smith $600. 1 Negro man named Sandy $10. 1 Negro woman and child named Margaret and Jason $400." The inventory then goes on to list the other property, beginning with a long list of livestock followed by equipment, household goods, and so forth. The document is certified and witnessed by a number of local citizens who attest to the "full and perfect inventory of the goods, chattles and personal estate" of the deceased Mr. Maddin. The reasoning is unclear why the second listed slave, Sandy, was worth only $10.
New Orleans" [caption title], an engraved view, 5 x 7 3/4 inches, of the city along the bend in the Mississippi River, with steamboats and clipper ships on the river and lined up along the docks, one in the foreground being loaded

New Orleans" [caption title], an engraved view, 5 x 7 3/4 inches, of the city along the bend in the Mississippi River, with steamboats and clipper ships on the river and lined up along the docks, one in the foreground being loaded

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New Orleans" [caption title], an engraved view, 5 x 7 3/4 inches, of the city along the bend in the Mississippi River, with steamboats and clipper ships on the river and lined up along the docks, one in the foreground being loaded
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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New Orleans, LA: Louis Schwarz, 1850. Illustrated letter sheet. 4to. Below the view is an autograph letter, signed by S. Samson, from New Orleans, Novr. 23rd 1854, to "Dear Father" (G.W. Samson) filling him in on his travels and discussing family news and misfortune, closing, in part: "I returned here the forepart of this Month and find Business rather dull owing to the low stage of water. The Boats are unable to bring down Freights." The engraved view is printed in an oval, enclosed within a decorated rule. Old tideline in lower corner and around the lower margin of the blank verso. Folded for mailing (a little wear at the folds). (#5626).
Joint Investigation Conducted at Odin, Illinois, September 15, 1941, Concerning Accident Involving Illinois Central Passenger Train No. 5 and B & O Freight Train No. 2D, at Odin, Illinois, September 11, 1941

Joint Investigation Conducted at Odin, Illinois, September 15, 1941, Concerning Accident Involving Illinois Central Passenger Train No. 5 and B & O Freight Train No. 2D, at Odin, Illinois, September 11, 1941

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Joint Investigation Conducted at Odin, Illinois, September 15, 1941, Concerning Accident Involving Illinois Central Passenger Train No. 5 and B & O Freight Train No. 2D, at Odin, Illinois, September 11, 1941
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
Description
Odin, Ill.: Illinois Central Railroad Company and B & O Railroad Co. , 1941. Typewritten. Very Good. No Binding. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Joint Investigation Statements Regarding a Significant Collision Between a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Freight Train and an Illinois Central Passenger Train that Occurred on September 11, 1941. This accident resulted in the death of a train-service employee and several injuries. Thus, an investigation was conducted by the Interstate Commerce Commission in Odin, Illinois on September 15, 1941. Included here are a sixty-nine leaf transcription of the interrogations of nine Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company employees who were present for the incident, including the engineer, the fireman and the conductor. This set is accompanied by the other side of interrogations, with a seventy-two leaf transcription including the statements of ten Illinois Central employees who were also present on this day, including the flagman, conductor, and car inspector. The original ink signatures of the interrogated Baltimore & Ohio employees appear in the bottom right corner on the recto side of each sheet of their respective statements. The last initials of the stenographers appear in the same position of the Illinois Central transcription. Also included at the end of the Illinois Central interrogations are original affidavits signed by the two stenographers responsible for the transcription. Both sets of statements are printed on 8 ½ in. x 11 in. typing paper, stapled together at top left corners. Versos are all blank. Overall condition Very Good, top 2 sheets B & O statements torn loose from staple, light soiling to covers. Housed in plain mannilla folders with appropriate titles. .
The Eloquent Light (Signed)

The Eloquent Light (Signed) by ADAMS, Ansel and Nancy Newhall

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The Eloquent Light (Signed)
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ADAMS, Ansel and Nancy Newhall
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780893810665
Description
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1963. Later printing. Large hardcover. 175 pages. Features a foreword by Beaumont Newhall along with text by Nancy Newhall. A collection of black and white images by Adams. A clean near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minute wear. Signed and inscribed by Adams on the half title page. Uncommon signed.
Waiting for Helen

Waiting for Helen by WRIGHT, Adrian

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Waiting for Helen
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WRIGHT, Adrian
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
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9780902145108
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South Hinksey, Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1970. First edition. Softcover. 23 pages. A collection of poems printed in an edition of 600 copies. A clean near fine copy in wrappers.
She’s Tall, She’s Tan, She’s Terrific (Cotton Club Parade)

She’s Tall, She’s Tan, She’s Terrific (Cotton Club Parade) by [African-Americana – Music – Jazz – Cotton Club] Robinson, Bill (“Bojangles”); Calloway, Cab; Davis, Benny; Coots, J. Fred

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She’s Tall, She’s Tan, She’s Terrific (Cotton Club Parade)
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[African-Americana – Music – Jazz – Cotton Club] Robinson, Bill (“Bojangles”); Calloway, Cab; Davis, Benny; Coots, J. Fred
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Auger Down Books (United States)
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Moderate creasing with small edge wear and light surface wear; a bright, very good example.
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New York: Mills Music, Inc, 1938. Folio sheet music, illustrated pictorial wraps. 9 x 12 inches. 6 pp. (including cover). Moderate creasing with small edge wear and light surface wear; a bright, very good example.. A visually striking promotional sheet music cover issued in connection with the Cotton Club revue Cotton Club Parade (1938), featuring large photographic portraits of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Cab Calloway wearing top hats against a bold orange background. The design incorporates lively vignette illustrations of musicians and dancers along the lower margin, evoking the theatrical energy of Harlem nightclub revues of the late swing era. The song was written by the prolific Tin Pan Alley team Benny Davis and J. Fred Coots, responsible for numerous popular songs of the 1920s and 1930s. The cover notes that the entire production was conceived and staged by Davis and Coots, and prominently advertises the show as “featuring Bill Robinson and Cab Calloway,” two of the most celebrated African-American entertainers of the period. Robinson, already internationally famous for his stair-step tap dancing and film appearances, was one of the highest-paid Black performers of the era. Calloway, leader of the Cotton Club orchestra during the early 1930s, had become one of the most recognizable bandleaders in jazz through his performances and recordings such as “Minnie the Moocher,” which popularized the “hi-de-ho” call-and-response style referenced on the cover by the song “Hi-De-Ho Romeo.”.
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Kurdish Basic Course: Dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq by Abdulla, Jamal Jalal; Ernest N. McCaurus

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Kurdish Basic Course: Dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq
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Abdulla, Jamal Jalal; Ernest N. McCaurus
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g
Description
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1967. Softcover. g. 4to. viii,482pp. Original wrappers. Wraps sunned, slightly creased and rubbed. "This Kurdish Basic Course contains three parts: Part I, Phonology introduces and classifies the consonants and vowels of Sulaimania Kurdish, and includes contrastive drills on the most difficult consonants. Part II, Spoken Kurdish presents the language of the educated native of Sulaimania, with each lesson based on a dialog. Part III, Written Kurdish introduces the Kurdish writing system as used currently in Iraq, and includes a transition from spoken to narrative prose. Finally, the Index affords ready access to all grammatical, phonological and other discussions in the book, performing the function of a reference grammar adequate to the needs of the language covered herein." Wraps in good, interior in very good condition.
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Gentle Giants: A Book of Newfoundlands by Weber, Bruce

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Gentle Giants: A Book of Newfoundlands
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Weber, Bruce
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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New York: Bulfinch Press, [1994] First edition. Includes a poem by Patti Smith and an introduction by Weber. . Navy cloth over pictorial boards. Quarto. With many great photos of Newfoundland dogs. Small abrasion near head of spine, corners lightly rubbed. Very good to fine.
THEE

THEE by Aiken, Conrad

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THEE
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Aiken, Conrad
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Fine
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NY: George Braziller, 1967. First edition, limited to 200 copies. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin. 100 copies were numbered and signed by Aiken on the half-title page and Baskin on the limitation page. This copy one of the signed issue but not numbered (out-of-series copy). Issued without dustjacket. Illustrated slipcase. Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. . Signed By Author & Artist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.
STRANGE ANGELS

STRANGE ANGELS by Agee, Jonis

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STRANGE ANGELS
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Agee, Jonis
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780395608357
Condition
Fine
Description
NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1993. First edition, first prnt. Signed & dated "November 18, 1993" by Agee on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. Agee's second novel. The images are ofthe book described and not stock photos.
Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies Volume Two: Texts in Contexts SJHC 40
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Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies Volume Two: Texts in Contexts SJHC 40 by Fidora, Alexander, Harvey J. Hames, Yossef Schwartz (eds.)

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Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies Volume Two: Texts in Contexts SJHC 40
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Fidora, Alexander, Harvey J. Hames, Yossef Schwartz (eds.)
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN
9789004229327
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LikeNew
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Leiden/Boston: Brill 2013. Hardcover. 9.25" x 6". x, 514 pp. Publisher's teal boards, no DJ as issued. Very minor shelf wear. Near Fine. ISBN 9789004229327 . LikeNew. Hardcover .
SINATRA: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY

SINATRA: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY by WILSON, Earl

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SINATRA: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
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WILSON, Earl
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Macmillan Publishing Company, 1976. WILSON, Earl. SINATRA: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, [1976]. Small quarto, black cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Wilson on the front endpaper, to a well-known, Chicago-based radio talk show host and his wife: "To Bob and Alice Cromie. Thanks for your brilliant interview! Earl Wilson." Near fine in d/j. $35.00.
THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID

THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID by ANONYMOUS

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THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID
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ANONYMOUS
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Magic Carpet, 2002. ANONYMOUS. THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID. New Milford, Conn.: Magic Carpet, [2002]. 8vo., boards in dust jacket. Reprint. A Victorian erotic novel. Near fine in d/j. $25.00.
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train; A Personal History of Our Times

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train; A Personal History of Our Times by Zinn, Howard

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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train; A Personal History of Our Times
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Zinn, Howard
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780807070581
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Fine
Description
Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.00), bumped and with a closed tear at the top edge, some creases at the flaps. Black cloth, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, pink ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Zinn's memoir about his previous thirty years, from teaching at Spelman to his work as a social activist.
L'Affice Illustree L'Affiche Belge Album Des Dessins Originaux; Vol. I only

L'Affice Illustree L'Affiche Belge Album Des Dessins Originaux; Vol. I only by Beaumont, A. Demeure de

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L'Affice Illustree L'Affiche Belge Album Des Dessins Originaux; Vol. I only
Author
Beaumont, A. Demeure de
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Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. tan wrappers printed in black and red. Very good
Description
Toulouse: Chez L'Autor, 1897. First edition. Wraps. Orig. tan wrappers printed in black and red. Very good. xxxiii pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. 28 tinted plates (sanguine). Text in French. Presents work of principal Belgian artists of the period. Front cover chipped at fore-edge and lower extremities.
Stop the plunder of our cities

Stop the plunder of our cities by Tyner, Jarvis

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Title
Stop the plunder of our cities
Author
Tyner, Jarvis
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: Hall / Tyner Committee, 1976. 4p. newspaper format campaign piece folded tabloid style, quoting a speech by Communist VP candidate Tyner in Manhattan; evenly toned, "Communist campaign of 1976" penciled across the top edge. Argues that the austerity measures being applied to New York and other cities were part of an attack by the rich against the working class and especially minorities.
The natural superiority of women

The natural superiority of women by Montagu, Ashley

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Title
The natural superiority of women
Author
Montagu, Ashley
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: Collier Books, 1974. 268p., paperback; small library sticker on spine, ownership name whited-out on half-title, else very good.
Pléiades de Iannis Xenakis
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Pléiades de Iannis Xenakis by [XENAKIS]. Lacroix, Marie-Hortense

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Title
Pléiades de Iannis Xenakis
Author
[XENAKIS]. Lacroix, Marie-Hortense
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
ISBN
9782876231054
Condition
Fine
Description
Paris: TUM-Michel de Maule, 2001. Softcover. Fine. Small octavo. Wrappers. 105 pp. With occasional illustrations. From the collection of musicologist Stanley Boorman.
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The Choral Tradition by YOUNG, Percy M.

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Title
The Choral Tradition
Author
YOUNG, Percy M.
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Norton, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 373 pp.
Book Prices: Used and Rare, 1998

Book Prices: Used and Rare, 1998 by ZEMPEL, Edward N. and Linda A. Verkler, edited by

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Book Prices: Used and Rare, 1998
Author
ZEMPEL, Edward N. and Linda A. Verkler, edited by
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780930358167
Condition
Fine
Description
(Peoria): The Spoon River Press, 1998. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Thick quarto. 796pp. Fine without dustwrapper as issued.
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INDUSTRIAL WORK FOR MIDDLE GRADES by Worst, Edward F

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Title
INDUSTRIAL WORK FOR MIDDLE GRADES
Author
Worst, Edward F
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1919. Oblong Quarto. Oblong quarto bound in original olive green cloth cloth. The binding has a bit of wear but this remains a nice copy of a difficult title to find, representing the the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement in the training of young artisans. Nicely illustrated with period design suggestions. Decorative Cloth
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BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR (HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR) by Woodward, E. L. (Ernest Llewellyn), 1890-1971

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BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR (HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR)
Author
Woodward, E. L. (Ernest Llewellyn), 1890-1971
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962. Hardcover. Octavo, lv, 592 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is yellow with red and black print. Dust jacket has mild edge wear, toning to spine. Price unclipped: "37s. 6d. net". Boards in blue cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has spotting to top edge, name in ink on front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1385323. FP New Rockville Stock.
The Last Days of Krypton

The Last Days of Krypton by Anderson, Kevin J.

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Title
The Last Days of Krypton
Author
Anderson, Kevin J.
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780061340741
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harper Entertainment, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 412pp. Beautiful Unread stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper, ($25.95 ), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.

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